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"I just remember thinking that I was going to die. I wasn't going make it out," Rager said.

But when she arrived at the Mason home of Gerald Moore, Rager said a man she'd known most of her life attacked her with his cane.

"Her dad is somebody I used to call my father, you know, she was my sister," Rager said. "I literally would call him 'Dad.'"

All three were charged with felonious assault and kidnapping charges, and Rager said she feared for her life.

"Shena came out of nowhere and started beating me on this side of the head, her and her father were beating me like consistently in my head," Rager said. "The cell phone I had to show her the texts, John grabbed it and smashed it with a hammer right away."

Rager said she was knocked to the floor during the attack, and she remembers hearing Gerald urging someone to break her hands.

"I remember something heavy being thrown over and he said cut her f-ing fingers off," Rager said. "She went and put my pinky finger in, I guess, pruners or something, they're huge though. I thought they were bolt cutters."

Prosecutors said the assailants intended to destroy Rager's career as a tattoo artist by cutting off her fingers with pruning shears.

"The way I survive is with my hands, tattoos and piercing," Rager said. "If it weren't for my fingers I'd have nothing."

Rager said she managed to fight off her attackers and escape.

"John Gulley bashed me on the head with the pruners, and at that time I just took off out the door," Rager said. "I remember Gerald saying, 'You're not going to make it out alive.'"

Rager said her friends intended to kill her.

"They just tried to murder me like I was nothing," Rager said. "I just remember thinking I was going to die, I wasn't going to make it out."

Gulley and Shena Moore remain jailed, but Gerald Moore was released due to a health condition.

"Gerald being free is ridiculous," Rager said. "He's the one that planned it all. I mean, he was telling them step by step what to do."

Rager suffered a concussion and some lacerations, and she said she suffers periodic headaches and blackouts as a result of her injuries.

But the emotional trauma is worse, she said.

"I fear for my life," Rager said. "I wish they got (charged with) attempted murder. It was all because I didn't want to be her friend anymore."